Ragged PGI medico commits suicide

Unable to bear the torture from his seniors, a medical student allegedly committed suicide in Chandigarh's prestigious Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research recently.

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Chandigarh

April 20, 2010

UPDATED: April 20, 2010 09:59 IST

Unable to bear the torture from his seniors, a medical student allegedly committed suicide in Chandigarh's prestigious Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research recently.

Twenty five-year-old Nagendra Reddy, a junior resident doctor at PGI, allegedly jumped from the fourth floor of his hostel building on Sunday evening. Originally from Bangalore, he had joined the PGI's blood transfusion medicine department about two months ago.

Rajbir Rana, the in-charge of the police station of the area, said, "We are investigating whether it was a suicide. He had died after falling from the fourth floor."

Initially, the police had started investigations on the lines of a simple case of suicide, but the case was turned on its head once Nagendra's parents arrived in the city. They informed the police that their son was under immense pressure and had called his mother a day before he committed suicide.

His mother Pushpa Reddy said Nagendra sounded very disturbed and he expressed his desire to quit studies and return home. "The transfusion medicine department students tortured him," she alleged.